{"id":15402,"date":"2025-10-21T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:24:35","slug":"man-charged-for-fatal-te-kuiti-crash-after-boat-and-trailer-come-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15402","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for fatal Te K\u016biti crash after boat and trailer come loose"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death following a\u00a0fatal crash when a boat and trailer unit broke free from a car<\/a>, colliding with an oncoming vehicle and killing a woman.<\/p>\n

Nateisha-Kurstyn Pareteoro Hana-Wetere’s brother Te Huia Brown-Hana earlier told RNZ his sister was driving near Te K\u016biti on her way back home to Auckland after a holiday in New Plymouth on 11 July when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old’s car was\u00a0struck by a boat and trailer unit<\/a>\u00a0that had detached from an oncoming black SUV.<\/p>\n

Hana-Wetere died as a result of the crash. Her three-year-old son was also in the car, Brown-Hana said.<\/p>\n

In a statement to RNZ, Police said a 19-year-old man had been summonsed to court. He was due to reappear in Te K\u016biti District Court on 3 November, charged with dangerous driving causing death.<\/p>\n

Four other people sustained injuries in the crash, one serious, one moderate, and two people with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

As the matter was before the courts, Police were unable to comment further in relation to the matter.<\/p>\n

Brown-Hana earlier said his sister was “larger than life”. She was caring, and had a “bubbly” personality.<\/p>\n

“She was everything you could have wanted and more in terms of a sibling.<\/p>\n

“She always accepted everyone for who they were. She didn’t pass judgement on no-one.”<\/p>\n

Hana-Wetere’s partner was working in Australia, and she was planning to eventually join him.<\/p>\n

Brown-Hana said his sister was in a great place in her life. She had recently moved to Auckland, with her brother helping her pick up furniture and other items for the home.<\/p>\n

“She had everything going – she started planning out what she wanted in her life and how she wanted to get there and she was actually doing really well,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Her child had anything and everything he could have needed – nothing came before him and nothing came after him. It was only him and him only.”<\/p>\n

RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A young man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death following a\u00a0fatal crash when a boat and trailer unit broke free from a car, colliding with an oncoming vehicle and killing a woman. Nateisha-Kurstyn Pareteoro Hana-Wetere’s brother Te Huia Brown-Hana earlier told RNZ his sister was driving near Te K\u016biti on her way back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15403,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions\/15403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}